"The Lesser Declamations," dating perhaps from the second century
CE and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described
as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection--here
made available for the first time in translation--represents
classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers.
The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for
fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning
presentation and arguing tactics--thereby giving us insight into
Roman law and education. A wide range of scenarios is imagined.
Some evoke the plots of ancient novels and comedies: pirates,
exiles, parents and children in conflict, adulterers, rapists, and
wicked stepmothers abound. Other cases deal with such matters as
warfare between neighboring cities, smuggling, historical (and
quasi-historical) events, tyrants and tyrannicides. Two gems are
the speech opposing a proposal to equalize wealth, and the case of
a Cynic youth who has forsworn worldly goods but sues his father
for cutting off his allowance.
Of the original 388 sample cases in the collection, 145
survive. These are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a
two-volume edition, a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
facing an updated Latin text.
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